Our Southern Minnesota Ancestors
The family of James Mahurin left this lovely New Hampshire community about 1861 for Minnesota. Several of James' brothers served in New Hampshire regiments in the Civil War; he did not serve.
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Click here for a view of Spring Valley Minnesota in the early 1900's. You will also find an obituary of Margaret Pike, the daughter-in-law of Lucy Lane Pike Triggs, on this page |
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Members of the Mahurin family settled in Spring Valley, Minnesota about 1861. In 1883, Etta Amelia Mahurin married Henry B. Turner in Spring Valley, Fillmore County. Henry and Etta were parents of four children, Clara and Burt, both born in 1885, and twins Merton and Merle, who died shortly after birth in 1895. Burt Turner became a clown-juggler in the Ringling Brothers Circus.In 1900, the Turner family adopted a daughter born March 30, 1900, probably in St. Paul Minnesota. This daughter, named Vivian by the Turner family, married Claude J. Triggs in 1920. Etta's mother, Emily Curtis Mahurin, was descended from an old New England family. Oral history recounts that James and Emily crossed the country in a covered wagon to bring their children to a new life in rugged Minnesota. Read Emily's obituary from a Spring Valley newspaper of the time. |
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Born in Westmoreland, New Hampshire, in 1780, Etta Mahurin's grandfather was a soldier, a lawyer, a judge, a statesman, an explorer, a surveyor and a sheriff in his home of Stratford, Coos County, New Hampshire.
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James Mahurin kept a store and worked as postmaster in his hometown of Stratford, New Hampshire. Although James, his wife Emily Curtis Mahurin, and their daughters left Stratford in about 1861, the map of Coos County in 1895 still reflects the sparsely populated town in which Etta Mahurin Turner, adopted mother of Vivian Turner Triggs, was born in 1860. You will find a biography of James at the Coos County, NH Genweb site.You will also find a little more information about the Mahurin, Triggs and Turner families on the Fillmore County Genweb site.
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Michael and Bridget O'Connor came to southeastern Minnesota with the intention of rearing a large Catholic family in that fertile farmland. Their daughter Frances Bridget O'Connor married John Triggs. Their son Claude J. Triggs was born near Spring Valley, Minnesota in 1899. Read the long narrative of Michael and Bridget's immigration to Boston and their years together on the Minnesota frontier.
Lucy Lane Pike (Corwin?) Triggs was the mother of John Triggs. She remains something of a family mystery, born in Maine about 1834 and married at least twice, perhaps three, or perhaps four, times. She died in Winona, Minn., at the home of her son John Triggs, in 1921. Eulogies for Sister Alma Rita and Sister Mary Rita Triggs Daughters of John and Frances Triggs Lucy Lane was the mother of three, or perhaps six, children. Lucy was the mother of Willis Pike, half-brother of John Triggs. Her granddaughter, Charlotte Pike Braley, provided information about the Pike family's life in Bloomfield Township, Fillmore County, Minnesota, in letters written to a distant cousin during the early 1980's.
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